Project Details: The Common Services Centres (CSC) project is national initiative under the National eGovernance Plan (NeGP) providing online government and private services at rural level. A total of 3385 such CSCs would be set-up across the State and would be operated by Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs) through a Private Partner, known as Service Centre Agency (SCA), selected at a State Level. The VLEs would be trained by the SCA on the hardware, software and other aspects of sustained operation of kiosks. The SCA would be funding the VLEs and would be ensured of a constant revenue support from the Government for a period of 4 years. The project is projected to be operational by March 2008

Milestones:      

·         Project worth Rs. 53 crore approved by Government of India

·         Potential SCAs sensitized on the project through a State Level Workshop

·         Secretaries / HODs explained on the project and its benefit to the citizens and State Government

·        CHOiCE project chosen as a model for implementation of CSCs

·        Draft Request-for-Proposal (RFP) already prepared

Impact:              

·         Increases rural employment

·         Increases e-literacy of the rural population

·         Significantly reduces the processing time of government transactions

·         Improves efficiency, reliability and accountability of the government machinery

·         Huge saving in time for citizens

·         Strengthens Government-Citizen bonding